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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans are poised to use their newly attained capitol dominance to make Missouri the 27th right-to-work state prohibiting mandatory union fees. That is unless Kentucky's recently crowned GOP majorities can beat them to it. The race to expand right-to-work laws is just one of several ways that Republicans, who strengthened their grip on power in the November elections, are preparing to reshape state laws affecting workplaces, classrooms, courtrooms and more during 2017. As President-elect Donald Trump leads an...
The co-chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in New York, who wished death on President Obama in 2017, is a member of the Buffalo Board of Education — but that could soon change. There are calls for him to be forced off the board because of vile remarks he has made about the president and first lady. Carl Paladino, a wealthy Republican businessman who says he is “friends” with Trump, was among a group of New Yorkers asked by the alternative newspaper Artvoice to answer questions about their wish list for the new year. In respons...
For years, he had crossed the line in conversations with teenage girls, using sexually suggestive language and even telling one student he’d date her if he were younger. By 2005, administrators at Orangefield Independent School District, about a two-hour drive from Houston, had investigated complaints by six different students. When it came time to deal with the Orangefield High School football coach, administrators didn’t fire McFarlin or report him to police. They didn’t even notify Texas education officials who had the power to take away...
The Red Lake Holiday Youth Tournament was held in Red Lake on Tuesday, December 27, 2016. Photographs by local community members....
It’s party time this December as going-away celebrations fill the agendas of local government officials. That’s because a significant number of officials were ousted in the November election — and many say they were inundated by a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment that spilled over from the presidential election. “There was a different attitude throughout the county of anti-something — anti-taxes, anti-incumbent, whatever,” said Barbara Marschall, a Scott County commissioner for two decades who lost her seat. “It extended all the way from city...
Ethrophic Burnett escaped the South Side of Chicago, moved to Minneapolis “to have a life for my kids” — and wound up in a social experiment. In the late 1990s, when the oldest of her children were just in elementary school, her family was one of hundreds that was moved to the Twin Cities suburbs as the result of a federal fair housing lawsuit. Her children thrived, she said. They developed new ambitions that otherwise might have seemed distant. Then, three years ago, as her oldest daughter entered college, Burnett lost eligibility for the h...
A zinc panel from U.S. Bank Stadium’s problematic western prow fell to the ground early Monday while others have come loose again. A missing horizontal strip of black panel stretches from the glass facade to underneath the U.S. Bank Stadium logo that appears on the 270-foot high prow. “Extreme weather and high winds” caused panels to “partially disengage,” according to a statement from the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA). But one panel fell to the ground in the hours after midnight Monday. http://www.startribune...
Federal programs designed to help farmers set aside more habitat for bees and wildlife have produced a dangerous offshoot this year: Some mixes used to plant native grasses and flowers were contaminated with harmful weed seeds that have now been introduced onto hundreds of farms in several Midwestern states, including Minnesota. The weeds include Palmer amaranth, one of the most prolific and devastating weeds in the country for corn, soybeans and other row crops. It has been a scourge for cotton and soybean farmers in the South and has slowly...
On a bitterly cold afternoon, Roberto de la Riva worked with lawyers to obtain a court order to force a landlord to fix the heat in a south Minneapolis apartment where the temperature had dropped to 54 degrees. A few days later and a few blocks away, Jennifer Arnold spoke with tenants about getting a landlord to fix insufferable humidity and mold layered on the ceiling. Meanwhile, Arianna Feldman knocked on doors in another apartment building where tenants say roaches crawled through the kitchens and the landlord ignored complaints. All three...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed an experienced hand from the George W. Bush era to his national security circle and a figure from the Trump Organization to make international deals. Thomas Bossert will become an assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. A statement from Trump's transition team said Bossert will advise the president on issues related to homeland security, counterterrorism and cybersecurity, and coordinate the Cabinet's process for making and executing p...
WASHINGTON — Arizona tribal members have received more than $175 million in the first four years of a federal program to buy back and consolidate parcels of land that are now split between multiple owners, the Interior Department said Nov. 1. The 2016 status report on the $1.9 billion buyback program said Navajo Nation individuals received more than $104 million, Gila River Tribe members got more than $51 million and members of the Salt River tribe were paid $20 million for their land. “We’ve heard of new vehicles being purchased, houses being...
The year 2016 may become a turning point for Native American leadership in environmental activism, as a once-small protest over a little-known pipeline in rural North Dakota captured the imaginations of people worldwide and erupted into a global protest action. The fight against Dakota Access, a nearly 1,200-mile pipeline from the Bakken oil fields to Illinois, became this year's Keystone XL, a celebrated fossil fuel project ultimately rejected by the Obama administration in the face of unrelenting opposition from environmentalists and...
Lawyers for a Saskatchewan First Nation say the federal government has been ordered to pay $4.5 million as compensation for treaty money withheld by the Crown after the Riel Rebellion. Chief Rick Gamble from Beardy's and Okemasis joined lawyer Ron Maurice and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron at a news conference on Tuesday. Maurice told reporters that the Specific Claims Tribunal had ruled the sum should be paid to the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation. It said the money was compensation for $4,250 in treaty...
ELKO – Whether Nevada tribal councils will venture into the realm of selling recreational marijuana is up for question. Although many in the tribal communities argue that getting involved in the legal pot industry is against tribal values, many modern Native American leaders are poised and ready grab the goose with the golden egg. One Nevada tribe has already geared up to get involved in the medical marijuana business and there’s no telling what the future will hold for Native Americans and pot. In late 2014 the U.S. Department of Justice put...
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A group of Narragansett Indians ended a weeklong occupation of a tribal government building with a promise to resolve their disagreements with supporters of the tribe's longtime leader. The occupiers left the building and handed over its keys to a mediator at about 11:30 p.m. Monday. The breakthrough came after days of mediation that included telephone calls and face-to-face meetings on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. "We accomplished what we set out to do and it was time to go," said one of the occupiers, C...
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. – Three people died Monday evening in a crash that closed Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon State Police said. Police say 37-year-old Adam Clausen of Portland was driving westbound when he was rear-ended by another car and pushed into the eastbound lanes, where he was struck head-on. Clausen, along with his passenger, Shannon Oleary, 39, died at the scene. The third person in that car, a 4-year-old child, was hospitalized with minor injuries. http://katu.com/news/local/odot-crash-cl...
HAVRE, Mont. — About half the residents of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation are receiving bottled water after several water pipes broke last week. The Havre Daily News reports (bit.ly/2hqxcRe) that as of Tuesday morning, the pipes had been repaired and pressure was being restored to the system. However, interim director of Tribal Water Resources Dustin White said it could be another two weeks or more before the 1,500 to 2,000 residents affected will be able to drink water from their faucets. The pipes broke on Dec. 22. htt...
There has been a lot of speculation since climate change doubter Donald Trump’s election about what the consequences could be for global climate action. Some analysts cite very dire implications, and others suggest that clean energy growth will continue apace. But number-crunching analyses that actually calculate how much of a dent the election could have on the planet’s temperature have been rare. That’s in part because it’s no simple calculation. Some have tried, though — and one such analysis from the think tank Climate Interacti...
ALBUQUERQUE – Darwin Neal Kinzhuma, 51, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a sexual abuse charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Kinzhuma will be sentenced to 81 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Kinzhuma will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence. Kinzhuma was arrested on March 23, 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with s...
n Thursday the Northern Cheyenne Eagles traveled to Lame Deer for an early season basketball doubleheader. Just before the boys began, as happens every game, the starting lineups were announced. However, instead of the regular five names, the Eagles featured six. http://billingsgazette.com/sports/high-school/basketball/boys/n-cheyenne-teams-dedicate-basketball-seasons-to-player-s-memory/article_e8194355-7a24-5f46-8282-c1d9af814824.html...
